Base Station v4 Product Guide
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
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Introduction
The Base Station is the central relay device between the SMARTdiagnostics IoT
sensor networks and the internet. The Base Station has DARTwireless™
communication capabilities to interface with SMARTdiagnostics sensors while also
having a combination of Ethernet, WIFI and/or Cellular connectivity to the
SMARTdiagnostics cloud application.
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How It Works
The Base Station communicates with up to 100
wireless sensors at a time. It has two primary functions.
First, it periodically pulls settings from the
SMARTdiagnostics cloud application and ensures that
the sensors connected to it are operating properly and
Second, it receives measurement data from those
sensors, buffers the data locally and forwards the data
to the cloud.
Additionally, the Base Station implements a 2.4GHz
wireless mesh communication network between itself
and its peers. This mesh provides the ability to
communicate locally between Base Stations. This
mesh creates multiple paths to the cloud such that not
all Base Stations are required to be connected directly to the internet, but instead
can forward their outbound traffic to a peer. The mesh also allows for running edge
analytics algorithms.
Mesh
